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We investigate the propagation characteristics of electrostatic waves in a magnetized pair-ion plasma with immobile charged dusts. It is shown that obliquely propagating (OP) low-frequency (in comparison with the negative-ion cyclotron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 A. P. Misra , Arnab Barman

We review recent progress on collisionless relativistic shocks. Kinetic instability theory is briefed including its predictions and limitations. The main focus is on numerical experiments in (i) pair and (ii) electron-nucleon plasmas. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-20 A. M. Bykov , R. A. Treumann

Thermal electrons cannot directly participate in the process of diffusive acceleration at electron-ion shocks because their Larmor radii are smaller than the shock transition width: this is the well-known electron injection problem of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Mohamad Shalaby , Rouven Lemmerz , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

We show that an electronic beam passing through the collisionless plasma of the "cold" ions and the "hot" Boltzmann electrons can give rise to the propagation of the supersonic ion-acoustic rarefaction shock waves. These waves are analogous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Victor Ts. Gurovich , Leonid G. Fel

We study the diffusion and thermal conductivity of charged particles in the weakly ionized plasma with the power-law q-distributions in nonextensive statistics and without the magnetic field. Electrons and ions have different q-parameters…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Xiaoxue Ji , Jiulin Du

Context. In a previous paper (Afify et al. 2024), we have investigated the stability threshold of the ion-ion acoustic instability (IIAI) in parameter regimes compatible with recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP, (Fox et al. 2016)) observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 M. S. Afify , J. Dreher , S. O'Neill , M. E. Innocenti

It is argued and demonstrated by particle-in-cell simulations that the synchrotron maser instability could develop at the front of a relativistic, magnetized shock. The instability generates strong low-frequency electromagnetic waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Lyubarsky

The reductive perturbation method has been employed to derive the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation for small but finite amplitude electrostatic ion-acoustic waves in unmagnitized collisionless weakly relativistic warm plasma. The Lagrangian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 El-Said A. El-Wakil , Essam M. Abulwafa , Emad K. El-shewy , Abeer A. Mahmoud

We investigate the stability of traveling front solutions to nonlinear diffusive-dispersive equations of Burgers type, with a primary focus on the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation, although our analytical findings extend more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Blake Barker , Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhao Yang

In graphene, where the electron-electron scattering is dominant, electrons collectively act as a fluid. This hydrodynamic behaviour of charge carriers leads to exciting nonlinear phenomena such as solitary waves and shocks, among others. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

A nonlinear dispersion of a general stationary wave in collisionless plasma is obtained in a non-differential form from a single-particle oscillation-center Hamiltonian. For electrostatic oscillations in nonmagnetized plasma, considered as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

The nonlinear propagation of electrostatic solitary waves is studied in a collisionless electron-positron pair plasma consisting of adiabatic cool electrons, mobile cool positrons (or electron holes), hot suprathermal electrons described by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-06 Ashkbiz Danehkar

Using previously developed method of two-dimensional Laplace transform we obtain the characteristic equations k(\omega) for electromagnetic waves in low-collision fully ionized plasma of a plane geometry. We apply here a new, different from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

Properties of modified plasma waves in non-linear electrodynamics are investigated. We consider a cold, uniform, collisionless, and magnetized plasma model. Initially, we also assume small amplitude waves and the non-relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Leonardo P. R. Ospedal , Fernando Haas

We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by a collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock which is initially unmagnetized. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chang , A. Spitkovsky , J. Arons

We study the effects of ion-dust collisions and ion kinematic viscosities on the linear ion-acoustic instability as well as the nonlinear propagation of small amplitude solitary waves and shocks (SWS) in a negative ion plasma with immobile…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 A. P. Misra , N. C. Adhikary , P. K. Shukla

Collisionless shock acceleration, which transfers localized particle energies to non-thermal energetic particles via electromagnetic potential, is ubiquitous in space plasma. We investigate dynamics of collisionless electrostatic shocks…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Minh Nhat Ly , Takayoshi Sano , Youichi Sakawa , Yasuhiko Sentoku

Propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) is studied using the hydrodynamic equations coupled with the Poisson equation in a warm plasma consisting of adiabatic ions and superthermal (Kappa distributed) electrons in presence of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 A. R. Esfandyari-Kalejahi , E. Saberian

In this article we present a numerical analysis for a third-order differential equation with non-periodic boundary conditions and time-dependent coefficients, namely, the linear Korteweg-de Vries Burgers equation. This numerical analysis is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Cristhian Montoya , Carlos Spa

We investigate the nonlinear propagation of multidimensional magnetosonic shock waves (MSWs) in a dissipative quantum magnetoplasma. A macroscopic quantum magnetohydrodynamic (QMHD) model is used to include the quantum force associated with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 B. Sahu , A. P. Misra